MEDIA TODAY_The Long History Of Trying To Get Trump Assassinated: the case of CNN since 2017 when Geraldo Rivera called them on it

 

Geraldo Rivera Blasts CNN — ‘Trump Must-Be-Crazy Crowd Rooting for Assassination’

By  John Nolte

Aug 23, 2017  

 

Those who watched CNN in the wake of President Trump’s rally last night in Arizona were treated to what can only be described as an organized narrative meant to question Trump’s sanity. Immediately after Trump’s raucous rally, where the president spent upwards of 20 minutes accurately blistering the lying media, CNN anchor Don Lemon hit the gas, closed his eyes, and careened off the rails:

Well, what do you say to that? I’m just going to speak from the heart here — what we have witnessed is a total eclipse of the facts. He’s unhinged. It’s embarrassing.

Lemon then asked his guest, former-director for national intelligence James Clapper, to join in on the backseat psychiatry. Clapper, one of the all-time great DC swamp creatures, was eager to jump in:

“You said you questioned his fitness. Is he a threat to national security — the president?” Lemon asked.

“Well, he certainly could be. Again, having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, I worry about, frankly, you know, the access to the nuclear codes,” Clapper answered. …

“I really question his ability, his fitness to be in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it,” Clapper said. “Maybe he is looking for a way out.”

As if on cue, resident CNN neurotic, Ana Navarro, was also questioning Trump’s sanity: “Only possible defensible explanation for Trump’s disgusting, unpresidential, narcissistic behavior, would be early-on-set dementia. Maybe,” she tweeted, although, like Clapper and Lemon, she has no medical training that anyone is aware of.

And on and on it went at CNN…

There really is no question that this narrative was pre-planned and organized by the last place cable network, and done so for maximum effect. After all, just a few days before, CNN’s leftwing media reporter Brian Stelter planted the seeds of this narrative with the revelation of what goes on behind-the-scenes at CNN:

“Usually after the microphones are off, or after the stories are filed, after the paper has been put to bed, people’s concerns, and fears and  questions come out,” Stelter said. “… Questions like these: Is the president of the United States a racist? Is he suffering from some kind of illness? Is he fit for office? And if he’s unfit, then what?”

There is no question that this was a deliberate act on Stelter’s part, a way to casually toxify the debate around Trump even further, a way to signal the troops that this is the next phase of the battle.

Geraldo Rivera might work for Fox News, but he is no Trump fan. Nonetheless, he knows exactly what CNN is up to and said so using his Twitter account:

 

As disgusting as the @realDonaldTrump Must-be-Crazy crowd are their fellow travelers rooting for his assassination. See where this is going?

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 21, 2017

Here at the Daily Wire we have seen where this is going for nearly a year now…

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We know CNN believes that rhetoric causes violence. Why just last night CNN claimed that the violence caused by Antifa, a leftwing terrorist group that was out in force protesting Trump’s Arizona rally, was caused by Trump’s speech.

So if CNN believes words cause violence, why is CNN, with no medical expertise to back up its absurd claims, warning its audience that the man in charge of the nuclear arsenal, the most powerful man on the planet, is crazy and therefore very dangerous.

The message CNN is sending to violent, paranoid crazies looking for infamy, looking to alter history, is painfully obvious and intentional. CNN wants Trump dead, and kudos to Geraldo Rivera for finally speaking that truth out loud. [SOURCE]

 

DSSO_The Hits Just Keep Coming: BREAKING: Acting Secret Service head PERSONALLY DIRECTED cuts to threat assessment agents in advance of Butler Trump rally: whistleblower

 

Thomas Stevenson
Aug 1, 2024

"A whistleblower has alleged to my office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was nor present on the day." 

It has been alleged by a whistleblower that the acting Secret Service (USSS) head personally cut agents from the threat assessment team leading up to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Penn. on July 13.

In a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley to Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe, it states, "A whistleblower has alleged to my office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was nor present on the day." 

 

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Whistleblower tells @HawleyMO USSS Acting Director Rowe PERSONALLY DIRECTED cuts to the agents who do threat assessments for events.

Whistleblower says those agents were NOT present in Butler - and some of them had warned of security problems for months pic.twitter.com/tRNoSYKW3E

— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) August 1, 2024

 "This is significant because CSD's duties include evaluating potential security threats outside the security perimeter and mitigating those threats during the event. The whistleblower claims that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder." 

Hawley continued, “The whistleblower further alleges that you personally directed significant cuts to CSD, up to and including reducing the division's manpower by twenty percent. You did not mention this in your Senate testimony when asked directly to explain manpower reductions.”

The Missouri Senator further added that the allegations from the whistleblower included that some of the agents who had been working on threat assessment had been warning the agency of dangers for months ahead of the rally. Hawley also demanded that Rowe provide materials regarding his “personal involvement in revising, updating, or otherwise changing Secret Service policies and personnel related to CSD” by August 8 among other records.  

During a Senate hearing earlier this week, Rowe was grilled by Hawley as well as several other Senators on what led up to the assassination attempt.  

In his opening statement, Rowe said, "I went to the roof of the AGR building where the assailant fired shots and laid in a prone position to evaluate his line of sight. What I saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer, and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured." [SOURCE]

 

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMP_The Finger-Pointing Continues: Pennsylvania county law enforcement officials say Secret Service is presenting a ‘misleading’ picture of Trump shooting scene

                                               02:15 - Source: CNN

By Jeremy Herb, Scott Glover, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Danny Freeman, CNN 

Updated 4:52 PM EDT, Wed July 31, 2024

Pennsylvania law enforcement officials are accusing acting Secret Service Director Robert Rowe of “misleading the American people” by saying that local snipers at Donald Trump’s rally should have “looked left” and spotted would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible and Det. Patrick Young, head of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, told CNN in an interview Wednesday that the Secret Service had not reached out to Beaver County’s snipers to speak to them before Rowe made his accusations at a nationally televised Senate hearing this week.

“For the acting director to say that this is where our guys were, and this is what they’ve seen, is a misrepresentation to the American people,” Young said. “We were never asked what we’d seen or where we were from Secret Service. I can tell you that again – the pictures presented is again a misrepresentation.” 

The Secret Service is falsely trying to blame other law enforcement agencies for the failure to stop Crooks, Bible alleged.

“Before this incident, I would have thought Secret Service is, like bulletproof. I mean, you’re not getting within 50 yards of somebody important, even on foot, right, let alone, you know, a sniper or something,” Bible said. “It honestly seems like, you know, they don’t have answers, so they’re just sort of pointing fingers and passing the buck around.”

Bible and Young said they are taking the criticisms from the Secret Service personally and warned that the trust between the law enforcement agencies has been fractured. Trump has said he plans to return to Butler, Pennsylvania, for another rally, but the county officials say they haven’t yet heard from the Secret Service or the campaign about any future plans.

The Beaver County officials were part of a multi-jurisdictional team assisting the Secret Service for Trump’s July 13 rally.

Rowe’s testimony – and photos he showed to lawmakers of the site – has further exacerbated the tensions between local law enforcement officials and the Secret Service have played out in the days since Crooks climbed onto a roof near the rally site and fired eight shots at Trump, injuring the former president and killing a rally attendee.

The Secret Service has not responded to questions for comment from CNN.

Asked if he could confidently say that something like this would not happen again at a future rally, Young said: “I cannot say that.”

“At this point, me, along with the, I’m sure, the majority of the American people, have many questions as to what and how the Secret Service does their job,” Young said. “And I would have never said that before this week really, with testimony, because the Secret Service has not acknowledged – for everything that they say that they did wrong, there’s a ‘but’ – and that but follow is usually assigning blame to the local law enforcement or state police.”

The Secret Service declined to comment.

A federal law enforcement official familiar with the matter said the Secret Service was and has been in touch with the lead for the Butler Emergency Services Unit, which oversaw the Beaver County local law enforcement officers and others that day.

The official also said that the counter sniper team was able to take pictures of Crooks on the ground prior to his climbing on the roof and questioned why screens on a window would prevent SWAT team members from looking for a suspicious individual at a rally with the former president.

Dispute over ability to see Crooks on roof

During Tuesday’s Senate hearing, Rowe highlighted the failures of communications during the Butler rally, saying that information about Crooks was “siloed” and “stuck” in local law enforcement channels.

He also said that local law enforcement was positioned in a nearby building and should have had a clear line of sight of Crooks on the roof – claims that the Beaver County officials dispute.

“I cannot understand why there was not better coverage or at least somebody looking at that roofline when that’s where they were posted,” Rowe told senators, displaying pictures the Secret Service took in a re-staging of the scene. “Looking left, why was the assailant not seen?”

But Young asserted that the photos Rowe displayed at the hearing could not accurately capture the vantage point of the snipers positioned in the AGR building.

The snipers had been instructed to be covert, meaning they could not stick their heads out the window to see Crooks, Young said.

The photo the Secret Service used to show its viewpoint was taken through of a window that had been secured and closed during the rally, only opened after the shooting had taken place, according to Young.

“Where our people were was the far-right side of the AGR building. Their views in no way could have seen Crooks without pushing their heads outside the window and looking back,” Young said. “The videos and the exhibits presented to Congress are purely wrong as to what they’d actually seen.”

Young and Bible said they are speaking out both to correct misinformation that has come out in the days since the shooting – such as false claims that the snipers were positioned inside the building because it was too hot to be on the roof – and to combat public statements that have thrown local law enforcement under the bus.

“It’s extremely misleading to the American people. I mean, it makes our guys look incompetent to me to say, ‘Oh, well, all you had to do is just turn your head to the left, and you would have saw this,’” Bible said. “My reaction was, I was a little fired up.”

Snipers were told to look at the crowd area, officials say

Bible added that there were screens on the windows where their snipers were stationed in order to keep them hidden. The muzzles of the guns were about a foot behind the window, Young said, and the snipers were about three feet back, observing through the window with binoculars.

“The screens were allowed to be in place because then it allowed us to shoot through, but would not allow people to see in,” he said.

“What they were instructed to do was focus on the secured area in front of you – so, before you went in through security, immediately after, before the stage. Watch those individuals – make sure nobody snuck something past security,” Bible said. “Not to look at the outer unsecured area where Crooks was. And so even if that was their job, in that position, they couldn’t have seen it. They would have had to been outside that window.”

One of the Beaver County snipers took a photo of Crooks before the shooting that was shared on a text chain with other local snipers. Young said that the sniper called in what he had seen to his command through the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, though he did not know if that information was ever relayed to the Secret Service.

“I can’t attest to who was in that command center or what visibility Secret Service would have had at that point,” Young said.

One Beaver County sniper, Greg Nicol, left his post to search for Crooks through other windows in the building, Young said, though he added said that the Butler County sniper there remained at the post, unlike what had been suggested in prior testimony.

Bible credited Nicol with potentially saving lives at the rally because of his early identification of Crooks being suspicious, taking a picture of him through a screened window and sending it around.

“If it wasn’t for Greg Nicol identifying Crooks, so early on, that is what allowed the Secret Service sniper to immediately take him out,” Bible said. “You know, he did get eight shots off, but otherwise, he may potentially could have unloaded a couple clips before they knew where this guy was.”[SOURCE]

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